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Word: Zoetrope
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
mid 19th century: formed irregularly from Greek zōē ‘life’ + -tropos ‘turning’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈzəʊɪtrəʊp
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a 19th-century optical toy consisting of a cylinder with a series of pictures on the inner surface that, when viewed through slits with the cylinder rotating, give an impression of continuous motion.
Short Definition:19th-century optical toy consisting of cylinder with series of pictures on inner surface that
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